Square Enix has announced that they wont be requiring an online pass for North American copies of the upcoming Hitman Absolution. The game had previously been planned to lock the game’s Contracts Mode behind the …

Some disappointing news on the Nintendo front was revealed yesterday after the release of the Wii U when some users realized that they cannot use their Nintendo Network accounts on multiple Wii U’s. Apparently the accounts are bound to …

Grand Theft Auto Vice City has recently been pulled from online digital retailers like Steam. The game was removed due to a licensing issue with a Micheal Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin” which is available in one of …

Microsoft has recently released version 11.1 of its Direct 3D API for Windows 8 and Windows RT but it seems people hanging on to their old installs of Windows 7 will miss out on this particular update to DirectX. …

The newest Humble Bundle has launched today and it is once again focusing on the Android platform. The Bundle includes Splice, Eufloria, Waking Mars, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Superborthers: Sword & Swocery EP and Machinarium for people who …

The newest DLC pack for Skyrim was announced recently by Bethesda via the above trailer. The DLC pack focuses on the first Dovahkin and features new monsters, and dragon mounts. The Dragonborn DLC pack will coming …

So. I suppose it has been quite some time since anything has been here at all. Long story shot is that life got the way for most of us. That being said I figured since this site still exists and I miss the whole making content for the web thing I figured I would start posting things on TYG once again.

So here is the start of a new Burning the Backlog series. This time I am solo and I will play through the entirety of Final Fantasy XII. Why you ask? Well the short and simple answer to that question is that while going through some of the stuff I had in storage I found two copies of the game. This kinda surprised me, mostly because I honestly don’t even remember buying the game once.

So i figured why not play it. So here we are. With a new solo version of BTB that will air first live on Twitch. I haven’t set a schedule as of yet but if you are interested in catching any of the future recordings live then feel free to follow me on Twitch. Or you can wait for the new episodes to show up on my personal Youtube channel.

Recently a few of the members at TYG decided to get together and play Lewd and Obscene, and thought; why not record it and share it with the world? It turned out to be a lot better than we expected, given that fact that most of us are very rusty when it comes to this sort of thing now. Hit that “Read more button” for some written thoughts, and a video about Lewd and Obscence the card game.

Square Enix has announced that they wont be requiring an online pass for North American copies of the upcoming Hitman Absolution. The game had previously been planned to lock the game’s Contracts Mode behind the online pass but instead the mode will automatically be included in the game. The game will still have the online pass in other territories; however, Square has stated that the online pass will be available for free rather than charging a fee for the unlock key.

It’s good to see some developers shy away from the Online Pass. I hate the damn things, so much so that I actually go out of my way to avoid purchasing games that use them.

Some disappointing news on the Nintendo front was revealed yesterday after the release of the Wii U when some users realized that they cannot use their Nintendo Network accounts on multiple Wii U’s. Apparently the accounts are bound to the console that they were created on and cannot be used or transferred to other Wii U consoles. This could lead to some trouble for people who purchase games online via Nintendo’s eShop if they ever lose or have their console stolen.

Hopefully Nintendo doesn’t stick to this and opens the Nintendo Network account up to other consoles because otherwise it just seems like they are going one step forward and two steps back with their online ecosystem. Especially when you consider that you can spend upwards of 60 bucks on a single game on their eShop and potentially lose that game if your lose access to the Wii U you purchased it on.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City has recently been pulled from online digital retailers like Steam. The game was removed due to a licensing issue with a Micheal Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin” which is available in one of the in-game radio stations of the game. People who have already purchased the game on Steam will still be able to access it but new copies of the game cannot be purchased.

Hopefully this isn’t a trend for games in the future now that they tend to get songs from artists rather than composing their own stuff. I would hate for some of the best games of last generation to be buried and forgotten thanks to the music industry.

A small group of people purchasing the PC version of Black Ops 2 ran into an interesting problem yesterday as they found that the second disc was in fact a Copy of Mass Effect 2 rather than a Black Ops 2 disc despite being labeled as such. Luckily those who bought the PC version of the game could just download the game data via steam regardless of what was on the disc.

Microsoft has recently released version 11.1 of its Direct 3D API for Windows 8 and Windows RT but it seems people hanging on to their old installs of Windows 7 will miss out on this particular update to DirectX. This was confirmed by Microsoft Employee Daniel Moth who stated on Microsoft’s msdn forums that there is “no plan for DirectX 11.1 to be made available on Windows 7.”

So there you have it, you can now factually state that Microsoft has pulled a Vista with Windows 8. At least in the sense that they are holding back support for DirectX on their older OS platforms just like the originally did with DirectX 10 on Vista.

The newest Humble Bundle has launched today and it is once again focusing on the Android platform. The Bundle includes Splice, Eufloria, Waking Mars, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Superborthers: Sword & Swocery EP and Machinarium for people who pay more than the average. As an added bonus the soundtracks for each of these games are also included in this bundle.

If you haven’t already purchased most of these games I would suggest picking this bundle up. Especially if you have an Android Device lying around. Hell I already own half of em but the bonus of being able to get the Soundtrack and an Android version of Swords and Swocery is enough for me to chip in. Read the rest of this entry »

The newest DLC pack for Skyrim was announced recently by Bethesda via the above trailer. The DLC pack focuses on the first Dovahkin and features new monsters, and dragon mounts. The Dragonborn DLC pack will coming to Xbox Live this December 4th for 1600 Microsoft points or $20. The PC version of the DLC will be coming at a later date, and I suppose a PS3 version might happen one day. That is, if they can ever get the first DLC pack to work on the PS3.

BioWare has released some new screenshots of one of the planned new characters for the upcoming Omega DLC for Mass Effect 3. The new characters name is unknown but we do know that the character is female. The Omega DLC is set to be released this November 27th for $15 and will feature General Petrovsky from Cerberus as its main antagonist.

This news kinda surprised me, since I had just assumed that Turian’s only had one gender like the Asari. I suppose that’s what I get for putting the franchise on my backlog. Read the rest of this entry »